Archive for September, 2011
(via ratak-monodosico, hugo-sb)
(via ratak-monodosico, hugo-sb)
spintria, Rome, 1st century BCE
This is a spintria. They were used in ancient Rome to request and pay for different “services” in brothels and from prostitutes on the street. As a cosmopolitan city, many visitors did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from distant lands, so the coins made the transactions easy. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act
What if, Magnificent Ruin
Red Deer Headdress
Mesolithic, around 8500 BC. Excavated from Star Carr, Yorkshire, England.
Made from the skull and antlers of a red deer, this headdress may have been worn with a deer-skin costume. It is believed that people used objects like this to help them look like and act like their prey, thus becoming better hunters. This suggests a particularly porous boundary between human and animal.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser , 1974
